Quotes About Belief

I don't think this city is ugly. And I don't believe in fairy tales.

He had decided to trust me.

For example, all human beings grow up believing that life should turn out one way or another. This drives you, as an individual, to constantly compare your current reality with the ideal in your mind of how life "should" turn out—which in turn affects a startling amount of what you do.

When you commit to this impossible future, you are "taking a stand.

What are you not committed to, only because you don't believe it can be done?

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

Impossible Anything that is outside of your reality—anything that occurs as something that is not possible for you to accomplish, or not possible for you to accomplish at this time and/or under these circumstances.

It's as if the entire human race were one big village of people whispering over and over the same message to each other, so that no one can help but believe it.

You are shifting from … … "what's possible" occurring as "what's predictable," bound by the limits of past experience … … to … … "what's possible" occurring as what you say is possible and what you commit to make happen, based on nothing.

I define this advanced level of power as the ability to take something that you believe could never come to pass, declare it possible, and then move that possibility into a tangible reality.

What words are in you that can change the world?

Like a god, / I believe in nothing.

So why do we insist He has vanished, that death ran off with our Everything worth having? Why not that he was Swimming only through this life--his slow, Graceful crawl, shoulders rippling, Legs slicing away at the waves, gliding Further into what life itself denies? He is only gone so far as we can tell. Though When I try, I see the white cloud of his hair In the distance like an eternity.

How wonderful would it be if trust, or even love, might be possible between any of us — or even all of us. I mean, if we let ourselves believe such a thing is possible.

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

A nun's habit is authentic, but wearing one doesn't make you a nun.

He believed fully that whatever suffering we experience is due to our own doing, and not due to a divine hand. Therefore, the pacification of suffering is also in our own hands. This was his idea of karma.

Travis Neighbor Ward

Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.

I think of this girl, this bright light coming from such a dark place. I know that the things she believes about God and the Bible and hope and all that are very real to her. They're not nice sayings on Twitter just to fill a box. They're the things she truly believes. I'm not sure I'm ready to rejoice, and I'm not quite ready to pray. The cool thing is that Marvel knows this. She knows this and doesn't seem to mind.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Faith, then, is an assertion of trust, even when our circumstances point in a direction that seems to call into question God's goodness.

An ethic unshaped by eschatology is neither Jesus' nor Christian.